Easter Sunday

Met Mary, Piper, Ben Marks and his dog Chapin at Grant Park early this morning. Sean and I got some much needed “pup time”. I miss having a dog. I brought my scope and we watched the south loop site for awhile. Both adults were there, centering activity around the nest box. At some point, one adult (I think the male), killed a grackle and brought it to his mate, who popped up onto the ledge from the nest box vicinity. We’re going up to the site Thursday to fix the nest camera and check for eggs, so I’ll get the ID’s then, but from our position on the ground, I could see that one adult had black over green bands. The other landed on the ledge in a rather awkward, wobbly way, which suggested that the south loop male, with his deformed left leg. We’ll see on Thursday!

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IN CASE OF EMERGENCY

If you find a peregrine on the ground, Mary Hennen has put up some information along with emergency contact numbers for the Chicago region on the FIELD MUSEUM'S PEREGRINE FALCON PAGE

For those of you not from the Chicago region, the information on what to do when you find a downed peregrine is still valuable, even if the numbers are not. It is highly probable your own area has monitors. My suggestion would be to try wildlife rescue organizations or rehabbers, Animal Control and/or any zoo or natural history museum type place in the area.